Sometimes, it is just easier to lie.  Sometimes, it is even the best option.  Sometimes a lie protects those you love, or is the only sane way out of a situation.  There are lots of reasons—good and bad—to lie, and I know a good number of them, having been on one side or the other [...]

So, couple of my recent posts have been lamenting the lack of “day-to-day” interactions that are fairly telling of characters and happen whether we want them to or not, be it members of our family, birthdays, etc.  So, what better thing than to defend and profess some feelings on the exact reason they aren’t around?  [...]

One of the things that are often talked about in regards to stories is foreshadowing.  This is, in my observation and opinion, even truer for SFF, where you have such tropes as prophecy and fate to play with.  But even if you choose to not use these tools, foreshadowing is a very important thing to [...]